Word: hardback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awards ceremony that is envisioned as a gala evening of entertainment, a celebration for the industry, and a news event for the media." Following their flashier big brothers and sisters in the movie business, the A.A.P. has established an "academy." Organizations suggested for membership include not only hardback and paperback publishers but associations representing bookstore owners, jobbers, publicists, advertisers, librarians and, finally, authors and critics...
...will be a prize for nearly everyone. In addition to the standard awards for the best novel and verse, there will be recognition for jacket designs and paperback covers. To reduce further the chance of disappointment, the academy assures its sponsors that a book that does not win in hardback will be eligible to compete in paperback categories the following year...
...that is precisely what Thomas' book became. Novelist Joyce Carol Gates found the essays "remarkable . . . undogmatic . . . gently persuasive." John Updike praised Thomas' "shimmering vision." Reviewers picked up the applause; so did more and more readers. The book has now sold over 300,000 copies in hardback and paperback and has been translated into eleven languages. The Lives of a Cell was given a National Book Award in April 1975, but not in the category of science. It was honored as a contribution to the field of arts and letters...
...that our gladness is likely to be subjected to the same methodical research and analysis that has been lavished for generations on our madness. The signs that happyology is aborning as a discipline have come in sequences of earnest surveys, widespread drizzles of articles and now a spate of hardback tomes...
...then, Jimmy Breslin and Dick Schaap have not committed any grievous sins in writing .44, a novelized account of Berkowitz's 14-month killing spree. But they haven't done much of a service, either: the book reads more like a dime-store cheapie than a presumably classy $10 hardback, and what goes between those hard covers is enough to make you yearn for the good old days, when the Papal Index kept the trash in the barrels and out of the bookstores. Breslin and Schaap offer little more than a Dragnet-style, names-have-been-changed-to-protect...